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Legislators there and in several other states want to restrict the manufacture or sale of meat made in a laboratory, even though it barely exists. The space industry disagrees.
Lab grown meat.
It sounds like a plotline from a sci-fi movie about test-tube chicken fingers, but it’s a real thing.
Start-up companies around the world are competing to develop technologies for producing chicken, beef, salmon and other options without the need to raise and slaughter animals. China has made the development of the industry a priority. In the United States, the Department of Agriculture has given initial blessings to two producers.
Now, a measure in Florida that would ban sales of laboratory-grown meat has gained widespread attention beyond state borders. The bill, which is advancing through the Florida Legislature, would make the sale or manufacture of lab-grown meat a misdemeanor with a fine of $1,000. It’s one of a half-dozen similar measures in Arizona, Tennessee, West Virginia and elsewhere.
Opponents of lab-grown meat include beef and poultry associations worried that laboratory-made hamburgers or chicken nuggets could cut into their business.
Imagine if it even tastes better!
The horror!
and doesn’t fuck up your cholesterol.
It won’t. It will taste slightly more bland on its own, but a little oil and seasoning will fix that right up.
I’ve made burgers from ground beef substitute (beyond beef and impossible beef) a bunch of times and they’re close to ground beef, just not quite as fatty or flavorful. I’m sure lab ground beef will be somewhere in between.
This is not beef substitute, this is actual beef, but grown in a lab, not taken from a live animal.
It will probably contain less harmful stuff, like antibiotics, as well.